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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

'The caricature artist's rendering we commissioned was not as good. We're relatively certain that he doesn't ski.'

Chapter 7 – Page 24

on November 1, 2010
Chapter: Chapter 07
└ Tags: Ardaic, Byron, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. Hugh
    Hugh
    November 1, 2010, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    dark times indeed….
    i have a theory that syr’s ears have a rabbit like quality they flop up and down with mood… just a guess

    first comment jiggy

  2. Locke
    Locke
    November 1, 2010, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    Ski? Now that you mention it, the sketch does remind me of the yeti from Ski Free.

  3. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    November 1, 2010, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    Gravedust is taking the briefing family well considering the yuts is keeps referring to his home town as “enemy territory.”

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      November 1, 2010, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      I meant “fairly well”
      *sigh* edit button please

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      November 4, 2010, 7:19 pm | # | Reply

      I dunno is Splande is talking about them. I got the impression he’s talking about the Troll encampment.

  4. Hypothetical
    Hypothetical
    November 1, 2010, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    OK, so the repressed minorities have taken and held their own land… Good Guy Team, get in there and get rid of them!

    Um, wait..Let’s think about this…who exactly are the Bad Guys here?

    • Kenkins
      Kenkins
      November 1, 2010, 4:59 am | # | Reply

      Socio-potlical religiously-charged modern-day analogues are the Bad Guys, here.

      Or possibly wood-elf celebrity chefs.

    • DaveP.
      DaveP.
      November 1, 2010, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      “OK, so the repressed minorities have taken and held their own land…”
      Yeah, that’s what I said when the Germans remilitarized the Rheinland. Not every “repressed minority” is deserving of sympathy. Some are repressed for a good reason, and minority status does not confer sanctity.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      November 1, 2010, 8:08 pm | # | Reply

      You know we just saw that one “repressed minority” enslave another repressed minority a few pages ago. The Trolls are far from victims themselves.

  5. Dojang
    Dojang
    November 1, 2010, 2:19 am | # | Reply

    Gravedust: “this *particular* troll? how can you be particular? they all look the same to ME!” (pause for applause)
    …
    “sorry, they keep asking me back to the comedy club…”

  6. Crow
    Crow
    November 1, 2010, 2:53 am | # | Reply

    Am I a weirdo for thinking the troll is kind of hot? I think I’ve been playing horde a little too long…

    Also, poor Syr’nj looks so distressed in that last panel. She can’t be that upset with Byron for the throttling, though, considering how close she’s sitting to him.

    • Meirnon
      Meirnon
      November 1, 2010, 3:43 am | # | Reply

      Are you kidding me? Look at the mustache on what’s-his-mustachio’d-face. Splande? Whatever. That thing probably came here after the ’80s adult video thing ended. They couldn’t have hired a better mustache.

  7. Doop doop
    Doop doop
    November 1, 2010, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    There’s no comedy in this comic!

    • Meirnon
      Meirnon
      November 1, 2010, 3:55 am | # | Reply

      Really? Because I am lol-ing so hard at the politics.

      Also, the alt-text counts as a part of the comic.

    • Cote
      Cote
      November 5, 2010, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

      You’re free to take your comic reading elsewhere . . .

  8. Meirnon
    Meirnon
    November 1, 2010, 3:45 am | # | Reply

    Just a note about the artwork: it has noticeably changed since the beginning, and not in a necessarily bad way. :D

    I went and looked back at chapter 3, and the lines were much thinner, and the shading was much more gradual and noticeable.

    Now the lines are thicker, the shading is kept to about 2 or 3 tones, and the textures are more noticeable.

    Just a little observation. :D

    • Meirnon
      Meirnon
      November 1, 2010, 3:50 am | # | Reply

      Oh, and another observation: if you look back through the archives to the “sneak peek” stuff, that troll there looks suspiciously like the orange-skinned one with two arrows stabbing his chest while grabbing Frigg’s mace.

      And, in keeping with the romance between Byron/Syr’nj, she’s making a flower-necklace soon after this part of the story.

      And then there’s a shadowy man… with what might be mistaken as a monocle.

      :D

      • Dojang
        Dojang
        November 1, 2010, 3:57 am | # | Reply

        hello meirnon. i was under the impression that all those sneak-peek’s occured around here: http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-7/chapter-7-page-4/ and anything after that was new material. sneak peeks are not sneaky anymore.

        sneak-peak would be the coolest name for a mountain.

        • Meirnon
          Meirnon
          November 1, 2010, 11:07 am | # | Reply

          Nope, there’s this one: The 2010 Preview page.

          http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-2/2010-preview/

          And yes, I would totally climb the shit outta that and then not tell anyone.

          • Becca
            Becca
            November 1, 2010, 11:38 am | # | Reply

            I think that’s definitely the one on the sneak peek page–if you look closely, the tusks are even the same–one whole, one broken!

          • Dojang
            Dojang
            November 1, 2010, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

            d’oh. completely forgot about that. my bad.

  9. TexasNinjaBuzzard
    TexasNinjaBuzzard
    November 1, 2010, 4:48 am | # | Reply

    Byron is completely gobsmacked by the idea of talking to trolls– everybody knows that trying to respond to trolls always ends in flames– and Syr’Nj is totally rockin’ “Nobody Knows The Troubles I’ve Seen” on the harmonica right there.

    “…Nobooody knooows, but Daghdaaa…”

  10. Hawk
    Hawk
    November 1, 2010, 8:01 am | # | Reply

    Talk…to trolls.

    Yeah, this is gonna end as planned >.>

  11. barsukthom
    barsukthom
    November 1, 2010, 8:33 am | # | Reply

    “Either they die, giving us an excuse to go to war, or they succeed, and we, and we, Oh, Deity, gimme a minnit.” (Crazed laughter) “Right. Or they succeed, and we move ahead according to Plan B.”

    • Fren
      Fren
      November 1, 2010, 9:05 am | # | Reply

      Plan B: Send out the Gnomish Engineering Corps to erect a bridge over the Troll camp. Since our government will be contracting this job with a minority owned concern, we’ll score political capital with the bleeding heart crowd and all without putting our own military assets at risk.

      As for the Savasi … we’ll install a tavern at one end of the bridge. We can contract with the Trolls to operate the toll collection at the far end, thus funding the tavern’s operating expenses.

      • barsukthom
        barsukthom
        November 1, 2010, 6:20 pm | # | Reply

        And then we sit back and watch the taxes roll in.
        Good work, sirs and/or mesdames.
        Next week, the Elvish Question.

  12. Anonymous Man
    Anonymous Man
    November 1, 2010, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

    I want a mustache like that.

  13. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    November 1, 2010, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

    Those circles below the photo make it look like the troll has boobs.

    • barsukthom
      barsukthom
      November 1, 2010, 6:22 pm | # | Reply

      Troll Women are NOTORIOUSLY well-endowed.
      One might say they are Topographically Enhanced.

  14. G@T0R
    G@T0R
    November 1, 2010, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

    I knew a guy named unknown . Had a brother who went by anonymous, and had a sister called incognito. His father, John Doe, was married to a cute lass named unidentified.

    • Nekropancser
      Nekropancser
      November 2, 2010, 7:08 pm | # | Reply

      Were they killed by a psychopath, called Nemo, by any chance?

  15. Nekropancser
    Nekropancser
    November 2, 2010, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

    It is not very clear, where are they heading to? Is he sending Gravedust back to his people and “the rest of you” to the trolls?

    Concerning Ms Medical Instrument and Byron: it was magic after all, and an enlightened woman as Syr’nge could get over such a thing. If you were attacked by your friend under the effects of drugs combined with hypnosis, you wouldn’t blame him/her. Though I bet, you would dream back the moment countless times, when he/she raised a fist or grabbed your neck.

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